“My paintings explore a visual world interpreted through personal experiences, mixed with sampled cultural references and materials. Graffiti Ideology is often referenced and conveyed through certain stylistic traits and themes. I’m inspired by the abundance and wealth of my visual surroundings – anything from a symbol directing sky train traffic, to the subtle textures in our natural world. My paintings attempt to uncover the hidden connections within communication design, geometry, landscape, pattern, repetition and colour. Combinations with their respective opposites expose both the contrast, and natural balance of those ideas. My aesthetic is driven with solid colors, bold marks, hard edges, and subtle textures – where their execution can play as both planned and spontaneous. My process harbors close ties with the craft of house painting and spray paint application. I strive for simple solutions in my work and my process around those materials is true to form and craft. Geometrics are isolated, and at other times in context with landscape and pattern. Line work ranges from bold to subtle. Colours are kinetic and uniform, and often in the same painting. Ideas can be both simple and complex. But it is our innate human ability to observe and bring subjects together that creates a connection. Its the balance of these things that make us see.”